FastPass+ Basic Info, Attraction List, and Suggested Priorities--Part I

[Aliceacc]

Thanks to all who have helped with my issues.

I just got off the phone with Antonia at Disney. Here are her answers to my concerns:

1. I can only book FPs when I'm within the booking window of the people within my party. So my booking window opens on Friday and the rest of the party is Saturday; I have to wait until Saturday. (That's the response I was expecting, and it makes sense. I may book some for our first day on Friday as a practice, then go back Saturday-- who am I kidding, Friday night after midnight-- for the bulk of them.)

2. She said that as long as I can see everyone on my Friends and Family screen, I can book a FP+ for them. If they wish to see the plans, they have to invite me to link with them, but I can book as long I can see their names.

If you want to link, here are the directions my niece sent me, which worked for her:

"Sorry for all the emails today, but I did get some Fast Pass Plus answers. I just sent invitations to everyone in your family to make sure this works, and I think it did. I asked to get connected to Uncle P and each of the kids- these requests should go to your email address, and you can accept on everyone's behalf. You will want to do the same for everyone on my list. Here is how to do it:


Go to "My Family and Friends List"
Click "Add a Guest" in the upper right hand corner

Click "Invite Through a Mutual Friend" tab (on the right)

Select "my name" from the drop down

 

[preemiemama]

1. I can only book FPs when I'm within the booking window of the people within my party. So my booking window opens on Friday and the rest of the party is Saturday; I have to wait until Saturday. (That's the response I was expecting, and it makes sense. I may book some for our first day on Friday as a practice, then go back Saturday-- who am I kidding, Friday night after midnight-- for the bulk of them.)

If you make ones on Friday that that you want to keep for everyone, you could try copying to them to the rest of the party on Saturday. This is not difficult to do.

 

[Aliceacc]

Could you give me "for dummies" instructions?

Though, honestly, if we don't get the ones we want, we'll choose others. With the possible exception of 7DMT, I can't see anything booking up all that fast. And if it does, it does.

But if it's that easy, I'll play with it Friday. Thanks.

 

[JennyMP03]

I think your current choices are excellent, and you should get a great spot--probably front row--somewhere in Frontierland with a 45-minute early start. I wouldn't change a thing.

As for people jumping in front of you there's always that possibility. One, I think it's overblown and doesn't happen as much as implied on these boards. Two, make friends with a nearby CM in those 45 minutes and if someone perchance does get rude, you have a powerful friend on your side.

Thank you, mesaboy2! You're wonderful. I reference this thread whenever booking my FP+ and appreciate you so much.

You're probably right-- I've read the accounts of parade struggles on these forums and gotten it in my head that defending a front-row parade spot is an act of warfare. I'm going to keep my plans as-is and, if I'm not satisfied with our parade viewing, I'll book FP+ for it for our next MK day.

 

[SRUAlmn]

Thanks to all who have helped with my issues.

I just got off the phone with Antonia at Disney. Here are her answers to my concerns:

1. I can only book FPs when I'm within the booking window of the people within my party. So my booking window opens on Friday and the rest of the party is Saturday; I have to wait until Saturday. (That's the response I was expecting, and it makes sense. I may book some for our first day on Friday as a practice, then go back Saturday-- who am I kidding, Friday night after midnight-- for the bulk of them.)

2. She said that as long as I can see everyone on my Friends and Family screen, I can book a FP+ for them. If they wish to see the plans, they have to invite me to link with them, but I can book as long I can see their names.

If you want to link, here are the directions my niece sent me, which worked for her:

"Sorry for all the emails today, but I did get some Fast Pass Plus answers. I just sent invitations to everyone in your family to make sure this works, and I think it did. I asked to get connected to Uncle P and each of the kids- these requests should go to your email address, and you can accept on everyone's behalf. You will want to do the same for everyone on my list. Here is how to do it:


Go to "My Family and Friends List"
Click "Add a Guest" in the upper right hand corner

Click "Invite Through a Mutual Friend" tab (on the right)

Select "my name" from the drop down

This is the exact opposite of what I was told, and my experience. I could see everyone on my friends and family page, but their tickets weren't showing up on mine (even though they purchased their tickets and linked them to themselves through MY account.) Because their accounts were set to private, the tickets were only showing up on their account. Thus meaning, if I tried to book their FP+ through my account it wouldn't recognize that they had tickets. Therefore, we had to go in and change their settings so that I could see their tickets on my account to be able to book FP+ for them. When you click on My Reservations and Tickets, can you see everyone in your traveling party listed with a ticket medium assigned to each? If not, I don't think you'll be able to book FP+ for them.

 

[Aliceacc]

Hmmm. I can see my immediate family and my two adult nieces, but not the other 4 adults.

OK, something else to include in my next email. Thanks.

 

[SRUAlmn]

Hmmm. I can see my immediate family and my two adult nieces, but not the other 4 adults.

OK, something else to include in my next email. Thanks.

I just don't want you to get to your booking day and then find out you can't and be disappointed. Let's see if we can figure it out BEFORE then I ended up calling Disney IT support. I did an online chat on wdw.com and she directed me to call IT. I spoke to James who was SO nice and extremely helpful and got it all fixed for us

 

[Aliceacc]

Thanks so much, I really appreciate your help!

I just emailed everyone.

 

[preemiemama]

Could you give me "for dummies" instructions?

Though, honestly, if we don't get the ones we want, we'll choose others. With the possible exception of 7DMT, I can't see anything booking up all that fast. And if it does, it does.

But if it's that easy, I'll play with it Friday. Thanks.

Once you make your reservation, click 'my reservations' from the main page of MDE (I am doing this from a laptop). Click 'update' next to the set you want to copy. Select the copy option on the next page, and click next. Select the person you want to copy. Then click next. Then choose the person/people you want to copy the plans to and click next. It will show you the choices to confirm, and once you do it will confirm the FP+ has copied to the people you chose.

Once everyone has been copied, you can go in and edit an individual FP to change times or rides- for everyone or just choose certain people.

 

[Aliceacc]

Thank you!

 

[Aloop]

Has anyone tried booking additional FP for one person at the kiosks and then copying over to others in their party? I've noticed while practicing that booking for one person, changing to the earliest time and then copying to others that FPs are available for earlier in the day by splitting up the group than just by booking all at once ( for example, getting FP return times for PPF that all converge at 5:00 versus availability for 5 only after 9). If this works, it may be very helpful when trying to grab additional FPs!

 

[HeyIt'sMe]

OK, I have a weird MB/FP+ question.
First some long winded background.....

DH, DD & I have a WDW package with 6 nights @ GF + 5-day base tickets. DD's boyfriend will be joining us during our trip but is only staying 4 nights and going to the parks for 3 days. I currently have him included on our reservation.

I talked with a CM to learn more about reservations where not everyone in the party was staying for the entire reservation and my options where :
1-leave my reservation as is, but, since everyone on the reservation has the same tickets, etc we'd be paying $25/night (he's 19) for 2 nights that he wasn't going to be at the resort and 2 days in park tickets that he wouldn't be using
OR
2-take him off the reservation and then when we check-in at the resort add him for the 4 nights and get 3-day tickets for him

I didn't want to do option 2 because then we cannot get FP+ for him in advance. So, we'll have FP+ reservations made for all 4 of us for all 5 park days, but, DDBF won't be at the parks for 2 days --- my question (finally!) - can DD use the FP+ (and extra FPs) using her and BF's MB or does a MB have to be scanned at park entrance for the FP+ (and access to extra FPs) to be active/available.

Whew. TIA!

 

[TwinPrincessMermaids]

We had one person in our group who did not have a FP (bought they ticket that day) and on every ride, every CM allowed them to come on the ride along with us. They still had them scan their card and the CM okayed it. The first day, it was 7 of us with FP and 1 without, the second time, it was one or two without FP, with the party of 9 that had FPs.

Not sure if that helps, but we didn't have to have the one on our FP. But of course, we can't guarantee it for all rides across the board, but we had no problems (and it was a ridiculously busy day too). Our other guests weren't sure if they were going to go that day or not so they didn't buy tix til they got to the park. Thankfully, Disney CMs did the right thing and made it worth their while.

 

[NJR]

Trying to clarify something - from what I understand this guide to say is that AP holders should be able to book FP+ x 7 days at the 60 day mark for any onsite stay. We are AP holders (which are linked to MDE) and have an onsite stay booked for July 21-24 - when I go on MDE I am only being permitted to book FP+ only for those onsite days (ie not for 7 days). . Have I misunderstood this guide, or is MDE closing a loophole? Any suggestions?

 

[mesaboy2]

Trying to clarify something - from what I understand this guide to say is that AP holders should be able to book FP+ x 7 days at the 60 day mark for any onsite stay. We are AP holders (which are linked to MDE) and have an onsite stay booked for July 21-24 - when I go on MDE I am only being permitted to book FP+ only for those onsite days (ie not for 7 days). . Have I misunderstood this guide, or is MDE closing a loophole? Any suggestions?

The 7 days is a maximum for AP holders. Your experience suggests that the days are also constrained by the length of onsite stay, if 60 days out.

Can you book 3 days still over the next 30 days, in addition to the 4 you have two months from now?

 

[SRUAlmn]

Trying to clarify something - from what I understand this guide to say is that AP holders should be able to book FP+ x 7 days at the 60 day mark for any onsite stay. We are AP holders (which are linked to MDE) and have an onsite stay booked for July 21-24 - when I go on MDE I am only being permitted to book FP+ only for those onsite days (ie not for 7 days). . Have I misunderstood this guide, or is MDE closing a loophole? Any suggestions?

Just a note....I have an AP voucher which is linked in MDX. Our 60 day mark was a week ago, and I was able to book for the entire week, plus the arrival and departure days (so a total of 8 days.) Not sure if that's because it's a voucher and not an AP yet, but it let me do more than 7 days

 

[NJR]

The 7 days is a maximum for AP holders. Your experience suggests that the days are also constrained by the length of onsite stay, if 60 days out.

Can you book 3 days still over the next 30 days, in addition to the 4 you have two months from now?

MDE seems to be allowing me to book FP+ for any day as of now up until July 24 (including days after 30 days from now but before the start of my onsite stay). I'd be interested to find out why I'm being constrained to the length of my onsite stay when others are not.

 

[audrey2580]

So if we have FP's for a ride that closes due to rain, we can use that FP at any time that day if the ride reopens or any other ride? How does that effect the 4th FP?

 

[Tbiafore]

I have a very unique situation that I hope someone has an answer for. We have an extremely large party going (that seems to continue to grow). Right now we are at 7 rooms (on different reservations) with 26 people. When picking FP+ can we link all of these to just one so we can easily pick our FP rides?

Also, it seems highly likely that we may run into issues of not having available times with so many people in our group. For example 26 tickets for "X" hour on Space Mountain seems like we would run into issues, am I right? Is there a better way to do this with such a large party? Does it just flat out deny the request or does it split the group up into different times such as 10 people at "X" time and the following 16 people at the next slot?

Thanks in advance!

 

[cel_disney]

I have a very unique situation that I hope someone has an answer for. We have an extremely large party going (that seems to continue to grow). Right now we are at 7 rooms (on different reservations) with 26 people. When picking FP+ can we link all of these to just one so we can easily pick our FP rides? Also, it seems highly likely that we may run into issues of not having available times with so many people in our group. For example 26 tickets for "X" hour on Space Mountain seems like we would run into issues, am I right? Is there a better way to do this with such a large party? Does it just flat out deny the request or does it split the group up into different times such as 10 people at "X" time and the following 16 people at the next slot? Thanks in advance!

Do you expect that all 26 people will go on everything together? All arriving at the parks together etc??